Posted on 07/29/2014 10:51:00 PM PDT by kristinn
Of course, time off WITH PAY?
yes. Michelle would be clueless what to do with the spouses of all these African delegates, so she’s asked Laura to quarterback for her.
Naw, it just means that most federal employees exchange a lot of weird bodily fluids.
Just google ebola and choose images. They had safety goggles, complete gowns, gloves, masks.
The last time I saw that much PPE was during the dioxin clean up work in Times Beach, Missouri.
They are complete idiots for not cancelling this summit. Just unbelieveable...one mistake after another.
That plane had to be loaded with it. It can live for several days in dried material.
This is an incredible disaster in the making - I cannot see anything but divine intervention stopping this from getting out of Africa.
The plot thickens...
Especially not on a dark and stormy night...
Well there goes the dang plot.............. :)
This little soiree should be cancelled. Ebola incubation period may be up to 21 days. May be viable in male sperm for 3 weeks as well. Sounds like a great time in store for us all.
“Outbreak,” is a medical thriller written by Dr. Robin Cook and published in 1987 which deals with an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the United States.
“The Hot Zone”: A Terrifying True Story is a best-selling 1994 non-fiction thriller by Richard Preston about the origins and incidents involving viral hemorrhagic fevers, particularly ebola viruses and Marburg viruses. The basis of the book was Preston’s 1992 New Yorker article “Crisis in the Hot Zone”.
Have you seen the new series. The Last Ship?
I don't think Ebola spreads by sneezing. It is typically spread by contact with bodily fluids. So if a person with Ebola vomits and droplets get on you--or you touch the droplets on bathroom surfaces--you are at risk.
It became airborne only in the sense that the Liberian-American victim was flying in an airplane when he became symptomatic.
This particular Ebola is not as deadly as other strains. It is only 60% fatal... Ebola can be 90% fatal.
In the event that Ebola becomes more easily transmissible, its fatality will probably drop. (Lethality and transmissibility have an inverse relationship.) One species of Ebola, Ebola Reston, may be transmitted through the air, but it is not known to cause symptomatic disease in humans. It has been found in pigs and monkeys.
If you look closely at the images, many of those who seem to have complete PPE actually have exposed patches of skin. Look around the goggles and surgical masks and around the feet. I have seen bare foreheads, necks, and ankles.
Laboratory workers who research Ebola wear space suits with air supplied through hoses.
The last time I saw that much PPE was during the dioxin clean up work in Times Beach, Missouri.
That's funny. They probably wore all of that because they were kicking up lots of dust. When I researched dioxin as a graduate student, I wore only a lab coat and gloves when I handled dioxin.
Once, a student dropped a plate of dioxin-treated cells on the floor. As per university regulation, our lab manager called the campus EHS office and was told, "You are the experts on dioxin. You clean it up!" (Um... okay.)
Try up to 61 days. Survivors should probably avoid intimate relations until they can be tested free of virus in all bodily fluids.
“or a closing of the federal government.”
Link to actual memo?
Actual memo: http://www.chcoc.gov/transmittals/TransmittalDetails.aspx?TransmittalID=6252
Odd, the “closing of the federal government” line isn’t quite the same now...
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